UM Ryder Trauma Center’s ongoing efforts to assist in the development of sustainable global trauma systems is the focus of this article, particularly the facility’s training program for Israeli trauma surgeons.

The inaugural World Innovation Summit for Health convened in Doha, Qatar, last December with more than 1,000 international delegates from 67 nations in attendance. The goal of the meeting was to identify practices and services that may contribute to the transformation of health care delivery around the globe.

Three previous International Guest Scholars describe their experiences at U.S. health care facilities and how this exposure to advanced operative techniques has resulted in improved patient outcomes and safer patient care in their counties of origin.

In this article, the authors describe how they used a scholarship from the Vietnam Education Foundation to develop an educational course designed to improve care and outcomes of patients with kidney disease. The evolution of this type of training program and its role in global health care also are presented.

Task shifting—which involves training nonphysician clinicians in the provision of basic medical and surgical care—has been successfully used in several resource-poor countries to address workface shortages. This article examines the magnitude of the global surgical disease crisis, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, discusses the limitations of volunteerism, and recommends greater use of task shifting to better address this issue.